Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 12. That the most solid gaine of any, is in the action of ver∣tue, all other emoluments, how lucrative they so ever appeare to the covetous mind, being the chiefest precipitating pushes of humane frailty to an inevitable losse

SUch is the thin, and ragged maske of vice,
That whosoe'r to peevish thoughts are pronest,
Will know some time b'experience, that there is
No profitable thing, which is not honest:
Nor can there be to God a man more odious,
Then he who leaves the good, for what's cōmodious.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 27. Of Lust, and Anger
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile

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